Question..
My son turned 8 months a few days ago. He was always very advanced in everything. He rolled over at 2, months sat up at 4 months, started pulling himself up on furniture and walking around it at 6 months. But now that he is 8 months im being told he is behind because he doesn't say 2 symbol words like mama or baba. Should i be worried?
Not at all. My daughter was the same way. She was walking at 10 months. But she didn't really start saying words until about 13 months. She was more physical. I'd say try baby einstein or similar DVDs of sign language. That helped my daughter communicate and signing words counts as words. We all learned the basic signs for more, please, thank you, milk, water, bath, etc. Now at 21months, she can say quite a few words and uses sign language for phrases (more milk please, etc)
But at 8 months, my daughter wasn't anywhere near talking. She'd just babble away and that was it. She was just higher up on the physical development and it took a bit for the rest to catch up.
And then 50 words by 24 months.
Many babies don't say their first word till 12 months.
Not if hes doing all that other stuff, hes just got his focus elsewhere. My ds is almost 2 and only has 10ish words you can understand.
Just split from father of child, need to go to court for custody, this is a nightmare, please give advice!!
- KassieLynn
on Feb. 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM